Surveillance techniques developed in overseas colonies were imported home against domestic dissenters

Evidence

As political scientist Alfred McCoy argued in Policing America’s Empire, practices of warfare, surveillance, and information gathering deployed to crush the resistance to US imperialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth century were brought back to the United States and informed the development of surveillance regimes domestically. In subjugating the Filipinos, American soldiers often used anti-black racial epithets that they brought with them from home. In its decade-long pacification campaign, the US colonial regime created highly modern police and intelligence units, which developed innovative security techniques that helped to shape a new national security apparatus during World War I. These would be deployed successfully against dissident populations including black and brown activists. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 753

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the reader’s earlier highlights of counterinsurgency techniques moving between red scare and green scare, and imperial practices deployed abroad being brought home. — connects to: US imperial surveillance techniques developed abroad were imported home to police domestic dissent — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 741; Colonial surveillance techniques developed abroad were imported home to police domestic populations. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 753; Counterterror surveillance operates identically at home and abroad — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 124 (+2 more)
• QUESTION: If colonial surveillance techniques circle from overseas back home in the US case, do French colonial policing methods from Algeria show the same domestic circuit — a direct test for the MOC question?

Broader Connections

• Colonial surveillance techniques developed abroad were imported home to police domestic populations. #corroborates (0.98) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 753
• CIA surveillance technology deployed abroad was used domestically against Muslims. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Counterterror surveillance operates identically at home and abroad #expands (0.72) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 124
• The colonial state was equipped to police natives but not wayward Europeans #complicates (0.70)